For the record, Matt has owned the place for at least 3 years at this point.

Don't do it; Don't do it; Don't do it. She's better off taking less money from someone who can pay. Section 8 tenants will destroy her unit. This is my experience in countless examples I've witnessed.

I usually get so pissed off by the H1 visa crowd - I worked with them in an I-Bank for many years - I loudly mention that they're selling bars of soap in the 99 cent store. I knew guys making well over 6 figures that I wouldn't get into an elevator with. I have great friends from all over the world but many in this crowd don't get it. It's extremely offensive in the Summer.

Has to be some type of "cash business" owner operation to get away with this sh@t. Really, don't waste your time contacting the owner. Lesson learned is all.

I'm sure the IRS would be able to extrapolate earnings from watching their performance for a week or so....

I have a meeting next month with Connell Foley just trying to plan ahead. Thanks

my nephew needs a recommendation for a driving instructor. has his permit. anyone know how long it takes start-finish to get a license in jc these days?

what are they currently charging per square foot on the condos? have they come up to the new construction averages in downtown's high-end places?

how much square footgage does the current jc museum have? it can't be that much. it seems like a very logical choice to move to this area. i'm assuming this was already broached?

there must be some realtors on this site - does this match with your experience downtown on properties that actually sold?

oh, this is a great plan for all you people that want "responsible development." in one fell swoop raise the charge from $1500 to $150,000-250,000.

Great idea, let the deal cut to approve, 3 40-60 story towers to impact any project over 8 units.

Start cheering kids. IF that goes through, all your hated developers will be leaving town and damn quick. There are not a whole lot of large parcels left to be developed downtown. All the currently approved ones will be grandfathered in. And no one will be paying that price to develop outside of downtown.

so bye bye to the growth of JC... Yeah!!!!

Thank god I'm not the only one that is sick of hearing from these people that think they know best for everyone. It truly makes me sick to see they same handful of people trying to dicate the adgenda month after month. Folks, wake up. Let's meet and remove these people and their adgenda. Please email me at mcginn63@aol.com to organize something.

worm,

i'd take my chances walking past a brownfield via a waterfront walkway as opposed to living in housing built on one as advocated by civicjc.

also, my city wouldn't have to pay the millions of dollars required to clean up the brownfield!

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that's a good point. maybe Falcon knows what happens. i'm assuming the taxes on the unsold units would be paid by the developer, right? if the buildings were not sold as condos...then what happens? does the owner lose the abatement?

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population density manhattan (only residents, not tourists or commuters.) 66,940.1/mi? According to the census during a weekday the density increases another 30% to over 88K per square mile.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/ ... o/daytime/daytimepop.html

jersey city 16,045.6/mi?



There has been a plan on paper to develop the hudson river walkway all the way from the palisades to bayonne. i'd much rather see that than trying to reclaim brownfields.

ugh, man you are a broken record. yes, we know..you're all for development as long as it lives up to your impossible standards of "responsible development, blah, blah, blah."

listen to yourself. won't provide jobs for unskilled labor? what jobs are they qualified for? jobs in the Home Depot that you also opposed?

CivicJC? I can see the membership now. Probably the same 6 loudmouths that have to fire off on every issue under the sun. Face it, your time is past. New blood = new reality.

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Oh, thanks for clearing that up.

But wait, England also had a baby boom after WWII and their crime rate is skyrocketing and has been since the early 90's when ours started dropping.

How do you explain that moron?

i noticed not one of you dealt with the issue i mentioned. curious, what is "the left's" position on why crime has dropped nationally for a long time?

i know you won't be giving me the view mentioned in "freakonomics."

excellent!

the left likes to talk about how many people we have in prisons in the U.S. what they don't talk about is the fact that since the justice system started getting serious about keeping violent criminals locked up, the national crime rate has plummeted.

it's so obvious. they just want to stay blind to reality.

these two "gangbangers" can spend the rest of their life banging gangbangers behind bars.

14 year olds have rights indeed, but not the right to vote. They go to schools, but they can't vote on how they are administered or who is on the school boards...clearly I could go into many other examples.

Who's bright (no pun) idea was it to allow 14 year olds to allocate my property tax dollars - that were just raised 18%?

Thanks for the report Bright.

josh,

you really have a deluded concept of the value added by labeling something historic. how do you know that 150 bay filled up because people bought into the historic concept? what about the other non-historic projects nearby that have sold well?

you have in the past credited historic designation as helping to triple values downtown, when they have really just mirrored what's happend all over the tri-state.

As for the Secretary of the Interior, i find it funny when the vast majority of people on this site bash the US govt (not necessarily you) but then use it when it comes in handy.

I have countless issues with the historic guidelines as they are drawn. You can't paint a brush across the US vis-a-vis historic issues out of the context and hope to get it right. A little farmhouse in a bucolic section on Montclair is one thing. A delapidated structure in the middle of the path of a booming metro area is another.


elgoodo, people don't move into an area, spending 100's of thousands of their hard earned money, hoping that things just stay the same or get worse.


Josh, what's the latest with the Embankment?

just because something is old, i.e., historic doesn't mean it necessarily deserves to be preseved. historic structures of architectual merit are one thing, but by your standard nothing would every be able to be removed so that the city can grow and prosper.

jersey city's version of Soho? how deluded....

i agree that about 4 or 5 buildings are worth saving down there but i'll never adopt your sclerotic vision for every square inch downtown. what the hell is wrong with toll bros. building a tower at the proposed site?

the area is practically blighted and it's never going to be what soho was and chelsea is. we're right across the river from one of the cultural capitals of the world. we are not going to create another one in downtown jc of all places.

i'm looking forward to seeing jobs created, more residents and tax revenue to the city - abated of not. maybe then we will get a whole foods and a barnes and noble someday.

That's great news.

I'd support saving a couple of buildings down there but to label the whole are historic was a bull**** move from the start (it was a tactic to battle goldman @ 111 first). To my mind a building need to be old AND have architectural merit to be worth preserving. Most of the buildngs in that district don't meet the test. The historic designation was pushed through by the anti-development lobby and it was unfair and could not be supported in court or in the council.

Actually, building new towers by the powerhouse is probably the only chance to save it. The city will have some leverage to have developers donate towards it's rehab.

Otherwise it will sit fallow like the embankment probably will for the next 20+ years.